“The artist who, in the shadow of the throne of His Majesty, has become a master of calligraphy is Muhammad Husain of Kashmir ...
The Blue Quran’s Kufic script, one of the oldest styles of Arabic calligraphy, further underscores its historical significance. Characterized by angular, geometric shapes, Kufic lacks the dots ...
Assalamu alaikum. Welcome. Come on aboard.” The six tour guides of the Chicago Black Muslim History Tour stood up to give and ...
A literary treasure that is breathing since 250 years now, Rampur’s Raza library is indeed iconic in every sense. Notably, the Raza li..|News Track ...
Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They include ancient translations of the Quran ...
Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to discuss the UK release of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, made in secret, and his battle with ...
A highlight is the majestic Hazrati Imam complex, home to mosques, madrasas and the Usmon Mus’haf, one of the world’s oldest Quranic manuscripts written in Kufic Arabic script ... under its monumental ...
The award this year focuses on the Quran Kufic script in the field of calligraphy ... and uniqueness and appreciates its cultural and artistic value in supporting Arabic language arts and literature ...
a right-to-left script. The abjad is a numeral system in which the first of the 28-letter Arabic alphabet "alif" represents 1, and the second letter "baa" is 2 up to 9. The other letters stand for ...
A free online platform designed to teach Arabic to non-native speakers was recently launched by Al Qasimia University, in an attempt to help spread Arabic learning in the community. Named 'Mubeen ...
Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers ...